Deceit Review (id)
Learn Chinese Simulator 2017.
I can't possibly in good faith recommend the game as it currently is.
tldr; Latest update has fixed nothing, brought new bugs such as the crate name being messy '@UI_CRATE #11', and even brought back old bugs like gas zones both being deadly which now happens more often. At least they aligned the pistol sights to the centre of the screen and made it accurate when aiming down sights though! Right guys?
Money grab by devs, soon to implement paid for skins by the looks of things (items still have embedded into them...), and the game is buggy as hell and only gets worse, and has a toxic community.
STAY AWAY! Buy on sale perhaps for $4.99.
Pros:
- Amazing gameplay in a vacuum.
- When you do eventually get a good game, the gameplay is engaging and fun.
- Character select screen is the lobby from the original Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombie map ;)
- Can level up your character and earn perks.
- Can unlock costumes for your characters
Cons:
- Buggy AF.
- Toxic community
- Only two maps which get tired real fast
- Developers keep adding in mostly skins vs 5-10% legitimate bug fixes (of which there are many) which often end up creating new peculiar bugs anyway. Remember this is not an EA game, this isn't good enough.
- Mouse will be rendered useless one in every 3 games upon joining the game (latest 1GB update did this for me)
- In order to make the game playable and not run at 20 fps I have to go into settings and select 'Low' which increases frames. But doing this in the main menu DOESN'T STICK. You have to do it for every game you get into!
- Half games will start with my mouse curser activated in game... One game I was blessed to have the middle click scroll button as my cursor.
- Game crashes for me once every 8-10 games or so.
- Often matched with Asians who cannot speak english. Not their fault, but why match Australians, Americans, and other English speaking people with Chinese servers in a game where voice communication is vital?
- This is more a discontent with human psychology than the game, but people are incredibly stupid in this game and because of this you'll find you only really get a decent game one every 3 or 4 games, not including game crashes, because other innocents will vote you out immediately in the first round because you "were standing next to empty blood bag therefore infected". Lumped in with this are people who play in small groups of 3+ and just randomly eliminate people together within the first round. Alot of people do play together/you can tell they are queued with each other but actually play the game properly, props. Anyway, I guess the votekick happy meta will evolve once people learn the game more.
- The ADS crosshair is 2 cm below the centre of the screen, and accuracy is congruent with this. You're better off aiming from hip with guns.
All of this aside, if there were global servers and you played with a group of 6 friends (without any collusion), this would be an amazing game. Can't recommend for $15 at present build. This isn't even an Early release and it crashes more than EA titles!